Breakthrough over 600-year-old mystery Voynich manuscript.

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Breakthrough over 600-year-old mystery Voynich manuscript. (BBC).

A breakthrough has been made in attempts to decipher a mysterious 600-year-old manuscript written in an unknown language, it has been claimed.

The Voynich Manuscript, carbon-dated to the 1400s, was rediscovered in 1912, but has defied codebreakers since.


Now, Bedfordshire University’s Stephen Bax says he has deciphered 10 words, which could lead to more discoveries.

In June last year, Marcelo Montemurro, a theoretical physicist from the University of Manchester, UK, published a study which he believes shows that the manuscript was unlikely to be a hoax.

Dr Montemurro and a colleague, using a computerised statistical method to analyse the text, found that it followed the structure of "real languages".


In February this year, a paper published in the journal of the American Botanical Council said one of the plant drawings suggested a possible Mexican origin for the manuscript.Read the full story here.

More on the Voynich manuscript here.